CMS Security Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide for WordPress®, Joomla!®, Drupal™, and Plone®

APPENDIX B

Acronyms and Terminology

Table B-1 provides a list of common security acronyms.

Table B-1: Acronyms

ACRONYM	MEANING
APF	Advanced Policy Firewall
AES	Advanced Encryption Standard
ACL	Access Control List
ASP	Active Server Pages
BIOS	Basic Input/Output System
BSIG	Bluetooth Special Interest Group
CGI	Common Gateway Interface
CISSP	Certified Information Systems Security Professional
CISO	Chief Information Security Officer
CISP	Cardholder Information Security Program
CLI	Command Line Interpreter
CMS	Content Management System
CoLo	Co-location Facility
CSU/DSU	Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit
DCE	Data Communications Equipment
DDoS	Distributed Denial of Service (attack)
DES	Data Encryption Standard
DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
FDDI	Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FTP	File Transfer Protocol (application layer)
GBIC	Gigabit Interface Converter
Gbps	Gigabit per second
HTML	Hypertext Markup Language
IANA	Internet Assigned Number Authority Organization
ICMP	Internet Control Message Protocol
IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol
IOS	Internetwork Operating System
IP	Internet Protocol (Internet layer)
IP Address	Internet Protocol Address
IPS	Intrusion Prevention System
IRC	Internet Relay Chat
ISDN	Integrated Services Digital Network
ISP	Internet service provider
JAXP	Java API for XML Parsing
JDBC	Java Database Connectivity
JDK	Java Development Kit
Kbps	Kilobits per second
LAN	Local area ...